Black Holes...

Okay so I was wondering for a while now. I a black hole was about to hit Felarya what would happen? Would it slip past the whole self contained plane thing and slurp up all the matter like a predator or would it simply be transported to another dimension and slurp up matter there? I'm a little confused...

The Miratans managed to tunnel into that realm; if someone were to open a similar but much larger (if shorter-lived) portal to Felarya that had, say, a black hole on the other side....?

Too many problems with that.

Opening a portal into a vacuum would suck air out, unless the portal had some sort of barrier that only allowed solids & liquids through.

Getting the other side of the portal close enough to the black hole would be hugely difficult, the projection equipment (assuming it requires it) or exotic matter ring (for wormholes) would be effected by the massive gravity of the black hole, so some sort of stabilisation system (ie: huge thrusters) would be required to maintain position, unless the portal was in a really fast orbit.

There are much more cost effective ways to destroy large areas of land.

Assuming that the portal was randomly targeted, the chances of the terminus appearing at a black hole are very small, since black holes aren't exactly common

Its not a bad story line, and yes a guardian might get involved. Honestly I already ran this one in an RP though. One thing to think about though the black hole would probably rip the gate apart in a fraction of a second, then again it that time it could do more damage than an H-bomb.

The Miratans managed to tunnel into that realm; if someone were to open a similar but much larger (if shorter-lived) portal to Felarya that had, say, a black hole on the other side....?

Too many problems with that.

Opening a portal into a vacuum would suck air out, unless the portal had some sort of barrier that only allowed solids & liquids through.

Getting the other side of the portal close enough to the black hole would be hugely difficult, the projection equipment (assuming it requires it) or exotic matter ring (for wormholes) would be effected by the massive gravity of the black hole, so some sort of stabilisation system (ie: huge thrusters) would be required to maintain position, unless the portal was in a really fast orbit.

There are much more cost effective ways to destroy large areas of land.

Assuming that the portal was randomly targeted, the chances of the terminus appearing at a black hole are very small, since black holes aren't exactly common

1 & 3) If some idiot is going to open a black hole in Felarya, the loss of oxygen or the destruction of a large amount of land would be the least of what they care about. More than likely they're doing it to wipe out Felarya, period.

2 & 4) Fortunately, you've got a point; otherwise we could have a... problem. To say the least. The problem I was thinking about is the Stargate scenario where someone leaves a big stargate-equivalent on one planet that's falling into singularity, with the other stargate-equivalent sitting in Felarya.But as you said it's insanely difficult to do that.

Yes, but the original point of them being rare was that they were rare in inhabited space, which the void doesn't count as. Assuming, for the sake of the argument, that other solar systems bore life and had advanced spacefaring civilizations, then it wouldn't be too hard to find a black hole.

Yes, but the original point of them being rare was that they were rare in inhabited space, which the void doesn't count as. Assuming, for the sake of the argument, that other solar systems bore life and had advanced spacefaring civilizations, then it wouldn't be too hard to find a black hole.

Yes, but the original point of them being rare was that they were rare in inhabited space, which the void doesn't count as. Assuming, for the sake of the argument, that other solar systems bore life and had advanced spacefaring civilizations, then it wouldn't be too hard to find a black hole.

Okay so I was wondering for a while now. I a black hole was about to hit Felarya what would happen? Would it slip past the whole self contained plane thing and slurp up all the matter like a predator or would it simply be transported to another dimension and slurp up matter there? I'm a little confused...

Yes, but the original point of them being rare was that they were rare in inhabited space, which the void doesn't count as. Assuming, for the sake of the argument, that other solar systems bore life and had advanced spacefaring civilizations, then it wouldn't be too hard to find a black hole.

Just head galactic north. There's a really big one there.

In the Milky Way's caramel center perhaps?

Yeah.. assuming you can get close enough. I'd imagine there's a lot of stellar junk.